SYNC: Audiobooks for Teens

In 2023, SYNC, our seasonal event of free audiobooks for teens, will return in April for the 14th year in a row. Thanks to this year’s generous support by publishers,...

At the tail of each SYNC season we reach out to participants to find out what listeners liked, how SYNC might have changed their audiobook listening, and how they shared...

We’ve come a long way—this week making it 16 weeks and 32 free audiobooks—since April. Thanks to Scholastic and to Naxos AudioBooks, this 16th week brings...

Our penultimate week of this SYNC season brings a pair of very different kids with character, thanks to free audiobooks from Zonderkidz and Tantor. There are plenty of contrasts...

In week 14, SYNC listeners can download to keep a historical novel with authentic roots and a nonfiction account from a witness to international history. Thank you to Recorded...

The name of the game in SYNC’s 13th week is giving outsider characters new powers through subtle twists of fantasy. Thanks to HarperAudio and Dreamscape, your free...

The epic is a particular kind of narrative, often presented in verse, featuring the adventures of and challenges faced by historical figures in legend or cultural history. Week...

Whether you are a big fan of reading mysteries in print or have yet to discover the attraction of this genre, get wrapped up in listening to a pair of free audiobook detection...

Week 10 of this year’s SYNC season comes to participants courtesy of Listening Library. MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955 and THIS IS MY AMERICA both offer realistic fiction...

Thanks to Hachette Audio and Scholastic Audiobooks, Week 9 of this SYNC season features a pair of novels with LGBTQI+ characters written and performed with...

In the Northern Hemisphere, summer is heating up, especially in the American South. In response to that, SYNC brings listeners a pair of chilling tales this week. Thank you,...

In Week 7, SYNC participants are off to two stage performances, so grab your snacks for intermission and find a comfy seat. Thank you, L.A. Theatre Works and GraphicAudio, for...

Thanks to Penguin Random House Audiobooks, the sixth week of this year’s SYNC collection of free audiobooks takes us backstage at two dramatic turning points in the...

During Week 5 of SYNC’s 13th season of free audiobooks, participants have the opportunity to meet a pair of real people. Thank you, Oasis Audio and Hachette Audio, for...

In Week 4 of this SYNC season, listeners can take a pair of excursions into history that give context to political realities. Thank you, Post Hypnotic Press and L.A. Theatre...

Week 3’s free audiobooks offer several kinds of literary and performance experiences. SYNC participants can select one or two teen novels this week, both of which are...

During Week 2 of SYNC, thanks to Brilliance Publishing and ECW Press, audiobook listeners from around the world can experience both mythology and realism from two different...

SYNC Audiobooks for Teens opens our 13th season with a pair of free audiobooks featuring exciting short stories. During Week 1 of this year’s program, use your Sora app,...

Whether you find audiobook listening a great way to consume books while you do chores, exercise, commute, or craft, make this the year SYNC helps you to become an active...

While we regularly note that the SYNC program’s opportunities for teens to access summertime listening—and personal collection building—involves AudioFile...

Among the 32 free audiobooks you can collect during this year’s SYNC season, make time to listen to the five novels that offer well written, expertly performed stories...

Two favorite fiction genres are coming to SYNC in a whole shelf of free audiobooks for 2022. Lovers of mystery, thriller, and suspense and those who revel in fantasy, time...

With just over two months before the opening of the 13th SYNC season, consider this year’s collection for its multiple possibilities for discussion groups or...

Now entering its 13th season (starting April 28), SYNC attracts new participants annually. Anyone new to SYNC understandably might have some practical questions. What is this...

Mystery, history, humor, sports, romance! Full-cast performances of graphic novels! Nonfiction and fictionalized explorations of current events! Stage dramas, works in...

Twenty-eight free audiobooks later, we asked you to tell us how the annual SYNC program went for you during 2021. Before launching into a report on our final report, we want to...

While we certainly hope you haven’t kept SYNC a secret from friends, colleagues, students, and family, that is exactly the theme of our final week of this season’s...

We come to that part of the summer when listeners (and everyone else) want to lighten up, kick off shoes, and just relax. We’re happy to be able to accommodate that...

As we emerge from more than a year of interacting less with others and renew our awareness of how important different kinds of relationships are in each of our lives, Weeks 11...

Across the ninth and tenth weeks of the 2021 SYNC program of free audiobooks for teens, you’ll have opportunities to meet people remaking their own lives to better fit...

Making changes in your own life can be exciting, unnerving, and surprising in how those changes can affect others. Making any change first requires us to make a decision, and...

Our next four free audiobooks, arriving in sets of two across two weeks, explore different forms of leaving home, making new homes, and creating identity within new cultures....

May brings definite signs of seasonal changes: In the Northern hemisphere, spring bursts and in the Southern, autumn is in the air. In many places, school years are winding...

Our twelfth season of free audiobooks for teens officially arrives, so dial up your Sora app and download (“borrow,” in the app’s parlance) your first pair of...

Are you a fan—and a promoter—of reading challenges, time record-keeping around personal media consumption (books, audiobooks, movies), and other such gamified...

SYNC Audiobooks for Teens returns for a 12th season of free audiobook downloads to keep for individuals ages 13 and up! AudioFile Magazine has hosted this program all these...

At the close of each SYNC season, we ask participants to complete an evaluation of their listening experiences during the previous weeks. We collect thousands of comments, as...